The new Herningsholm Vocational School asserts itself as an independent building in an existing campus cluster of educational buildings. The school is designed inside-out - with a focus on the creation of optimal learning and study environments - as well as out-side-in, in relation to the surrounding context where welcoming urban spaces provide possibilities for outdoor work and teaching.

The building takes into account that our behaviorand thinking is shaped by the physical environment we are in. The form of the learning environment - the architecture - has a significant impact on the student's daily learning processes, and is therefore designed for modern and democratic principles.

The building is an angular layout that brings together three building volumes under a sloping roof, which in scale responds to the surroundings by dropping from three floors furthest south to two floors in the far north. The angular building creates three new out-door urban and learning spaces in conjunction with the neighboring buildings, and the landscape design supports the learning experience as well as the climate-adaptation of the wider area.

The learning spaces that are the building's backboneare organized around a unifying common space thatalso serves as a flexible learning environment. The learning spaces are grouped 2 and 2 so as to create direct access to the common space from all learning spaces in the school, and the common study spaces also offers varied physical environments to work in, from the double-height rooms facing the garden, suitable for workshop-like uses, to a student café space for informal gatherings of students, to dedicated study corners of quieter and more intimate character.

The approx. 4700 m2 complex is expected to be completed in summer 2016. C.F. Møller's winning project was developed together with C.F. Møller Landscape and COWI. The other teams in the competition were led by Cubo Arkitekter, KPF Arkitekter, RUM Arkitekter and Aarstiderne Arkitekter.